Anyone using F-Secure 2006?

that I couldn't tell you as I have'nt configured it for my mail client ( thunderbird ) and my IP has a spam filter that really kicks so I haven't been in a hurry to set it up.

 

Bigc

Could you schedule a scan and let us know your observations.Thanks.

 

Yep I will give it a try, let you know the results a little later.

 

the spam filter works well once configured for thunderbird, which is what I use, In IE it's a little less accurate it seems they use 2 different rule sets for each function, the scan is above average & F-Secure is what made me more interested in other AV's etc as it found a few errors on the main system. I never see it put a drag on the system & apps open & run freely and not a mem hog really compared to other Suites. I'd suggest this over the big 2 & the firewall is easy to setup...

 

your not crazy!


To anyone currently using F-Secure... What's their support like?

 

All I can say is I emailed the senior vice president in charge of sales and support of the company and got a response within thirty minutes. I have never contacted support but if the contact I had with the company is any indication it is probably pretty good.

 

I've written them twice they responded within that day or the next & in the one case they followed up to make sure I was satisfied...

 

That is good to hear.... A product w/ poor support is something I try to stay away from.

 

How bout System Control.It flashes me whenever a registry change is about to happen with the allow/ block option.F-secure seems to sit deeper in your computer than most AV's.Could be why i had trouble installing Prevx1.Any other thoughts on this?.

 

Any progress with that scheduled scan Bigc?.

 

i found out the 6-month MS trial is not the same as the F-Secure 2006 suite....it's just AV, no firewall or other goodies.

so the real FS2006 suite has a 30 day trial and is currently $39 with their 50% off....trying to snag customers before KIS2006?

 

I was at Frys Electronics today as saw F-Secure on rebate there...
Thought someone might be interested.

F-SECURE INTERNET 2006 3 USER
$70.00 Rebate (after rebate = $19.99)
**$50.00 Mail in Rebate valid from 2006-04-25 to 2006-05-31
**$20.00 Competitive Upgrade Rebate valid from 2005-10-01 to 2006-09-30
F-Secure 2006 rebate

F-SECURE ANTIVIRUS 2006
$20.00 Rebate (after rebate = $0.00)
**$20.00 Mail in Rebate valid from 2006-05-24 to 2006-06-01
F-Secure AV 2006 rebate

 

Thanx Namor for the links.
However, I notice some ambiguity - the link clearly states:

Downloaded Mail-In Rebate info states:

 

i found out the cause of my slowdown opening windows, it was BOClean with the checkmark on Automatically scan download file (when opening).
My Downloads was heavily loaded w/ tons of files and BOClean was scanning it everytime i opened it. i unchecked that box and everything is fine now.

 

Really sorry about the scan results. I really forgot and I am not running F-Secure anymore. I have purchased Fprot and am useing it now. really like it so far.

 

There is a review on PC world.com for "Top Ten Security Suites." Here's the F-Secure one. http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,125790,00.asp

 

couldn't edit the other post but i was wrong about BOClean. went to NOD32, kerio free, Boclean. everything back to normal and opening quickly.

 

I use F-Secure Internet Security 2006 and from use in the real world I would say it actually performs a bit better than PC World results suggest. This is only my educated opinion not a scientific proven fact

 

Can anybody suggest the firewall part of f-secure?? I ve not seen its name in many leak tests in internet

 

For those of you who use f-secure how good is its detection rate and also I am presuming this is a pure AV software and not a security suite where it also includes a FW.

Also is F-Secure from Norway ?

 

No, from Finland.

 

detection rate is almost identical to Kaspersky since they use the KAV AV engine. FIS2006 uses about 9 different scanning engines including their Blacklight rootkit detector. It's a full suite like the other security suites out there. need a fast machine to use it at max settings

 

F-secure uses five scan engines including the blacklight engine.

. F-Secure says its real-time protection and five scan engines--two for viruses and one each for spyware, rootkits, and heuristics--account for the overall slow scan speed.

 

It's interesting that with all those engines the detection rates are essentially identical to KAV on AV Comparatives.

Could there be a difference in detection of rootkits?


Jerry

 

Well, I also installed F-Secure Internet Security (FIS) today.
1. It didn't like my ZoneAlarm Free, so I uninstalled that one.
2. It didn't like my AVG Free either, so I uninstalled that one too and I thought that was the end of complaints.
3. But it didn't like my Ad-Aware SE Personal either, so I uninstalled that one too.
4. I didn't want to wait for its reaction on Spybot S&D, so I uninstalled that one too.

This was my very first security suite and I suppose that each suite will react like that.
I was lucky I had to remove only freewares and not paid softwares to make room for FIS.